Status Updates From O Cão da Morte

12. S. O. S. *** A traveler has a car breakdown during a storm and goes to the nearest cottage for shelter. Although welcomed, he has foreboding feelings about the family there and when he is shown to his room for the night he finds an “S. O. S.” has been drawn in the dust on top of a cabinet. No previous magazine publication date and source are known, so this 1933 collection seems to be its first printing.

11. The Last Séance *** Before retirement, a medium is asked to perform a final séance for a client who wishes to connect with her dead daughter. Tragedy occurs during the séance. The story was first published in Ghost Stories magazine in November 1926 under the title The Woman Who Stole a Ghost and then in The Sovereign Magazine in March 1927 under the title The Stolen Ghost.

10. The Call of Wings *** A rich man becomes obsessed with the music played on hand-pipes by a legless street musician. He begins to imagine that he is being lifted up into the air as if by a pair of wings. No previous magazine publication date and source are known, so this 1933 collection seems to be its first printing.

9. The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael **** Two doctors attend a case where a young nobleman who was about to be married has somehow become enchanted and is beginning to act with animal-like behaviour. No previous magazine publication date and source are known, so this 1933 collection seems to be its first printing.